Word: flair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...secret, as Flanagan saw it, was "music you want to dance to-not wild and not icky. You might say I strive for music comparable to Saturday Evening Post art-no Carnegie Hall atmosphere." Victor called it "The Flanagan Flair." Actually, even down to a sweet clarinet leading the. saxophones in front of big but softly barking brass, it was more of a hark-back to the days of Glenn Miller...
...distinguished. As in The Medium, Menotti proved himself a master at writing Puccini-like melodrama and composing melody with Puccini-like appeal. His hair-raising stage directions-touches such as the smashing of a window-pane-startled listeners more than once. And he had not lost any of his flair for the macabre: in one scene, a magician hypnotizes his fellow visa-seekers, commands them into an eerie waltz in the consulate office. In Magda's dying dream, the same characters dance again in coffin clothes...
...jobs he has held and from his few public statements known to the West, Malenkov may be classified as a practical more than a theoretical Marxist. His talent and the stages of his career tend to parallel those of Stalin. He is unquestionably a first-rate organizer, with a flair for totalitarian political management. As a party intellectual, he is a sort of lower middlebrow, whose unshakeable ideological orthodoxy is tempered with hard common sense. He is tough and abusive to his associates-perhaps the same temper that the dying Lenin found obnoxious when he wrote, before his death, that...
Well known for heavy dramatics (The Fugitive) and ambitious westerns (The Three Godfathers), Director Ford now shows a lively flair for broad strokes of comedy. Even when the movie gets close to his old home grounds, as in the cleanly staged scenes of overseas action, he tints it brightly with a sense of the ridiculous. In the French underground, bosomy Starlet Corinne Calvet, gotten up as an overblown copy of Rita Hayworth, makes a fancy leader of the Maquis. Back home, Evelyn Varden plays Willie's comically bland mother to perfection, and William Demarest, a graduate of Sturges comedies...
...works, was much improved-cleaner and simpler layouts, bigger pictures, less prune whip and more meat. And Publisher Cowles and brother John Cowles, whose picture magazine Look (circ. 3,039,811) and news digest Quick (which claims 700,000) were doing handsomely, were prepared to underwrite Fleur's Flair for as long as necessary. The confident circulation guarantee for Flair's first year...